Why you should study AI, ML and how I did it

The following is a guest article from Risto Siilasmaa, chairman of the board of directors, Nokia Corporation. I was fascinated by artificial intelligence during the end of the '80s and spent numerous hours working on Natural Language Processing challenges using a weird and wonderful programming language called Lisp. The effort didn't really amount to much, but at least I could forever claim I had worked in the hallowed field of AI. In 2006, the cybersecurity company I founded in 1988 started using neural networks to identify malicious applications. Though F-Secure didn't immediately enjoy much success with it -- as often happens when you're just a little bit too early with a new technology -- it was my second brush with AI and my first with machine learning.